Dead Bird Crawling
words left unspoken must
turn to song
like a dead bird
learning to crawl
becomes the ants that eat it
pieces carried off like loot
from the shop of God
laid at the fat queen’s foot
those who snap your brain, nip your heels
those who have never seen these hills
those atomic archons will
die under the weight
of their own making
casually flinging ...
Sunday 19th December 2021 2:43 pm
First Poem For Isis
1
there are so many
in here now that
it’s easier to imagine I am
collecting them like cards
of cartoon characters til
they leave more lost and longing
than they ever
thought possible
2
somewhere aside my body or
just above my head...
Friday 19th November 2021 8:27 pm
The Birds When They Fly From The Trees
noise maddening cracked turquoise higher
high
high
or thoughts high
birds with God's thoughts fly high
wings threading light p
dark ai...
Monday 15th November 2021 5:42 pm
The Untitled
self-taught to be
thoughtless she said her medi-
cation made it impossible but it
happened I changed at first then I
tried to change I drank a lot at the time
missed possible memories of a life-
time
it never came to that they stayed
where they were comfortable
the reliability of a realm we cannot
conceive of
forever-never-forgott...
Monday 15th November 2021 4:07 pm
Early Bird/Daily Morning Terror
the early bird
catches
the
wooooooorm*
but the late worm stays alive alone
and the worm that
never leaves learns
things d
e
e
p
...
Monday 15th November 2021 12:14 pm
Mercury Part Two
Part Two: leave the living as they are
1
we met in suits a sad interaction
to enhance alienation a comparison
must first exist half-blinded by giant light she could barely speak and I
like a planetesimal in transit a spot or stain
yellow in the helmet her satan smile still
a ten tonne drill to an already quaking
Thymos an exchange of essentials
s...
Sunday 14th November 2021 12:51 pm
Mercury
Paer One: Stasis to Statues
1
The elaborate craft finally reached the green pastures of Mercury where even the Trees day-d
ream of leaving the Great White Soul at the Centre it cracks streaks that one Love
you lost you could smell the scent of
Saturn dripping from her skin her light
eyes like rodent holes bones blessed badly
she directs the craft her ghostly thought...
Saturday 13th November 2021 7:47 am
DONE + OVEN
sometimes he hears a phrase hears a phrase hears a phrase and it's off for God's sake 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 the red light is off 10 is it 9 the number of ending 11 there's a phrase repeats repeats repeats no comfort in the glow of an active fire alarm just an optical delusion here's a phrase he poked an unloose tooth tight as a nun's cunt till it was bloody and he cried with dread because he knows he'...
Wednesday 10th November 2021 7:30 pm
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